I grew up lower middle class in Rural Alberta Canada in the 70’s. I moved to a mid sized city in the beginnings of my teens. and one major thing that stuck out to me was the amount of swearing the city kids did. I heard more curse words in one recess than I pretty much did in my entire lifetime up to that point.
Not to say that we didn’t know swear words it was just REALLY frowned upon by every one. Adults didn’t swear in front of kids, and men/boys didn’t swear in front of girls.
Well to be fair, the bell riots happened on the way to Cochrane’s big test. Mind you, we now have WW3 to look forward to…